Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families from harassment? In which Barnett insisted that there would be no need for… Read More ›
law & order
The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose – Australian convict saying
Quick Hit: Maybe it’s her fault for having a shower?
The photo of a young Lara Bingle which has apparently been doing the rounds of the cricket and AFL players for some time now has been published in the Woman’s Day magazine. Woman’s Day say they did not pay for… Read More ›
Hey, let’s send people who don’t speak the local language – what could go wrong?
Unable to speak Spanish except for a few phrases, the CIA team had difficulty calling off the operation.
You better run, you better take cover
What the flying blueberry-flavoured hell is up with this idea that Men At Work now owe bazillions of dollars – up to 60% of their earnings on Down Under – to a pack of copyright trolls? SMH: Men at Work’s… Read More ›
Quickhit: iiSmackdown: Roadshow, Disney, Paramount, Sony, 20thC Fox, Universal, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, and friends to pay costs
Stilgherrian writes at Crikey: iiTrial: ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement Film industry claims that iiNet, Australia’s third-largest internet service provider, was responsible for its users’ illegal file sharing were dismissed. […] “I understand this is the first Australian… Read More ›
Complacency, Indifference and Intent (or lack thereof)
various nay-sayers are arguing that the upswing in attacks on Indian students can’t have anything to do with structural racism in Australia, because none of the student visa laws that push overseas students into exploitative employment situations and allow deceptive “colleges” to fleece them while isolating them from Australian-born student bodies were intended to have a racialised separatist effect
Ted Alvin Klaudt wants $500,000 per infringement from people who publish his name without permission
But convicted rapist Ted Alvin Klaudt and his “Common Law Copyright Notice” can go whistle.
Ignoring the real problem.
Now I wouldn’t know Scott Pendlebury, vice Captain of the Magpies (Collingwood) AFL team, if I fell over him. But apparently he is well known enough to be the victim of an unprovoked attack that saw him punched in the back… Read More ›
Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad
Reading an article about women’s violence at Schoolies’s Week recently prompted me to pull this languishing post out of my Drafts folder. This snippet exemplifies the phenomenon of low levels of criminal or “disorderly” behaviour by young women being given… Read More ›
More for the “sex workers can’t be raped” file
Cara blogs on the acquittal in Sydney of a US Marine charged with rape even though he admitted using physical force against a woman to coerce sexual intercourse:
Hoyden About Town 